One of my favourite things to do during my free time currently is to go on mfs2020 and practice flights with the a32nx a320 neo. I fly the plane fairly often especially when practicing landings which I am not the best at but I am more than willing to learn from all my failed landing attempts and I watch many tutorials and videos regarding this simulator and it's various mods like the a32nx but especially landings and takeoff procedures.
As for vatsim I have already watched plenty of videos covering the topic of atc communication and I already know some of the essential atc lingo at this point like "Roger" "Wilco" and basic instructions like "set heading/altitude/speed to etc etc" reading back instructions is something I am capable of doing but sometimes it just takes time for my aspie brain to register that and other times I have to ask for atc to repeat instructions in case I miss something which does happen.
A couple of days ago I was flying on approach to Kastrup airport from Gothenburg airport and a calm english speaking atc with a danish accent proceeded to help me on my approach and initially I wasn't doing too bad and I was complying with instructions and repeating them sometimes in voice form and other times in vpilot chat because my simulator was acting up and I had big problems reading back instructions by voicechat.
I remember doing something silly where I mixed up the speed indicator knob with the altitude indicator knob for some stupid reason and atc literally told me this "I don't care about your speed I want you to descend to 2000 feet" and I explained to him that I mixed them up and he was ok with that.
Where I messed up was on my approach close to the airport ,for some reason I had trouble descending to 1000 feet as instructed and instead it started to increase the climb even though I had set it to descend and to make things worse I had pulled back on the flaps and I was about to crash but I recovered and that was the breaking point for the poor atc and he told me that I should not be on vatsim if I can't follow instructions or fly the plane properly even though I had been on the network before and was able to comply with instructions and I told him goodbye and disconnected.
And sometimes I just get really worked up over the plane not doing what I want it do or it doing something I did not expect which causes me to frequently swear loudly and that one time I nearly crashed into a block of apartments I was so shocked I yelled "jesus f***" over the mic and he quickly reminded me that swearing is not allowed on vatsim and I promptly apologised.
Am I the only one here who has had a similar experience in this flight simulator and on vatsim?
As for vatsim I have already watched plenty of videos covering the topic of atc communication and I already know some of the essential atc lingo at this point like "Roger" "Wilco" and basic instructions like "set heading/altitude/speed to etc etc" reading back instructions is something I am capable of doing but sometimes it just takes time for my aspie brain to register that and other times I have to ask for atc to repeat instructions in case I miss something which does happen.
A couple of days ago I was flying on approach to Kastrup airport from Gothenburg airport and a calm english speaking atc with a danish accent proceeded to help me on my approach and initially I wasn't doing too bad and I was complying with instructions and repeating them sometimes in voice form and other times in vpilot chat because my simulator was acting up and I had big problems reading back instructions by voicechat.
I remember doing something silly where I mixed up the speed indicator knob with the altitude indicator knob for some stupid reason and atc literally told me this "I don't care about your speed I want you to descend to 2000 feet" and I explained to him that I mixed them up and he was ok with that.
Where I messed up was on my approach close to the airport ,for some reason I had trouble descending to 1000 feet as instructed and instead it started to increase the climb even though I had set it to descend and to make things worse I had pulled back on the flaps and I was about to crash but I recovered and that was the breaking point for the poor atc and he told me that I should not be on vatsim if I can't follow instructions or fly the plane properly even though I had been on the network before and was able to comply with instructions and I told him goodbye and disconnected.
And sometimes I just get really worked up over the plane not doing what I want it do or it doing something I did not expect which causes me to frequently swear loudly and that one time I nearly crashed into a block of apartments I was so shocked I yelled "jesus f***" over the mic and he quickly reminded me that swearing is not allowed on vatsim and I promptly apologised.
Am I the only one here who has had a similar experience in this flight simulator and on vatsim?
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